The question is what I should use as the default for the Symbol attribute
for a surface brightness axis. If I make it "mu" then people working at
other wavelength regimes can explicitly set a different value if
needed.
David
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Tim Jenness wrote:
> Capital Sigma seems to be used in radio astronomy. eg A&A 376, 641 (2001):
>
> "radio surface brightness of Sigma < 2 x 10**22 Watt / m**2 / Hz / sr"
>
> Radio tends to use Jy/beam
>
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
>
> > mu is certainly what's used in the optical. It's less confusing than it
> > might be; we don't have micromags per sq. arcsec. I can't say what is
> > used for other wavelength regimes.
> >
> > Malcolm
> >
>
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> Tim Jenness
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